November 7, 2005, Monday

Five days into the Iraq war, Connie Chung was standing in Jim Walton's office at CNN's headquarters in Atlanta with a request. At the war's outset, Walton, who had just taken over as head of CNN, put Chung's prime-time program on temporary hiatus to...

CNN has told Connie Chung, one of its most prominent anchors, that it has dropped her prime-time program, effective immediately. Although CNN asked her to stay in some other capacity, she declined and will leave the network, an associate of Ms. Chung...

Shortly after he was named president of CNN last month, Jim Walton visited the network's major bureaus. A similar question greeted him as he made the rounds in New York and Washington: Why is Connie Chung's program on CNN? ''People asked...

Phil Donahue's ballyhooed return to national television, six years after leaving his groundbreaking syndicated talk show, is proving anything but triumphant. Four weeks after his new show's heavily promoted debut on MSNBC, Mr. Donahue has lost 40...

With the arrival of ''Donahue'' on Monday night, the cable news competition at 8 came to resemble a three-headed dragon roaring all over the place. Just picture it: Phil Donahue as the white-haired contrarian dragon on the left; Bill O'Reilly as the...

In her first week as CNN's hoped-for answer to the mighty Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Channel, Connie Chung made some noise in the ratings, in the press and even on her new program itself, where she found herself competing with her studio's fire...

Last year, in the face of a challenge from the Fox News Channel, CNN announced that it would change from a news-is-the-star strategy to one emphasizing news personalities. The network quickly hired the Fox News anchor Paula Zahn for the mornings and...